Winners and losers of Summer 2012

September 4, 2012

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WINNER, “The Avengers” Summer’s first film (it opened May 5, the beginning of Hollywood summer) was also the biggest. Expectations were sky-high, and it exceeded them, setting an opening-weekend record of $207 million and placing No. 3 on the all-time box-office list (behind “Avatar” and “Titanic”). (Zade Rosenthal / Disney)

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WINNER, “The Avengers” Summer’s first film (it opened May 5, the beginning of Hollywood summer) was also the biggest. Expectations were sky-high, and it exceeded them, setting an opening-weekend record of $207 million and placing No. 3 on the all-time box-office list (behind “Avatar” and “Titanic”). (Zade Rosenthal / Disney)